Kate & Emily

 

Wouldn’t it be fabulous to wake up tomorrow and see clearly for the first time? Changing from wearing glasses to contact lenses could give you that option. With new extensions of up to 30 days on how long you can wear a pair of lenses for, there’s no need to take these disposables out unless your month is up. All this is down to the new materials used in hard lenses and it means you could wake up to a new world tomorrow.

Whatever the reason you’ve never tried contacts before, don’t let the idea of having to do something to them every day and put them in your eyes put you off. When you next have an eye exam, ask your eye care specialist whether you have a problem that could be correctable with lenses. Bear in mind that the four most common complaints can be easily rectified with the many bespoke lens options that are available in the current market.

Even if you have astigmatism or suffer from presbyopia and have been told before that there were no lenses to help, you may be surprised to hear that huge leaps have been made in the technology used to scan the retina for irregularities and so custom made lenses can now be made for just about every eye problem. For astigmatism ask for the latest toric lenses.

These advances in the world of optics don’t just apply to machinery either, the plastics used to create the lens itself is now much better and able to allow oxygen to pass to the cornea. This means you can wear the lens for longer without it becoming uncomfortable or your eyes drying out.

It is this latest silicone advancement that means the wearer of the contact lens can now leave the same pair in for up to 30 days without having to adjust, clean or take them out at night. The eye stays naturally comfortable under the new hydrogel plastics even when the eyelids are shut. Which means you can wake up to a new, high-definition dawn tomorrow, and every day after that. Why not take advantage of paying monthly to spread the cost evenly. There are plenty of online specialist contact lens stores such as Vision Direct who sell contact lenses by the box or with significant cost savings when you buy in bulk.

If you dream of never wearing eye aids ever again, you should consider taking a course of Ortho K eye corrective treatment as part of your foray into the world of contact lenses. This programme again works over night to correct any irregularities in your cornea that are causing you sight problems. For example, astigmatism is a condition that derives from an uneven cornea. These irregularities mean that the light that enters the retina is reflected into two parts of the eye leaving the impression of a warped image.

Wearing the specially designed RGP lens overnight means the lens can help to even out any problems leaving you less reliant on glasses or any other sight problems depending on how serious your complaint was.